Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Vice-Admiral J. G. M. Field, Royal Navy

Jubilee 1897, silver; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, 1 clasp, Alexandria 11th July (Lieut: J. G. M. Field. R.N. H.M.S. “Sultan”); China 1900, no clasp (Captn. J. G. M. Field, R.N. H.M.S. Marathon); Khedive‘s Star 1882, the Egypt medal with light pitting from star, otherwise good very fine and better (4) £1000-1200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A fine collection of awards for the Boxer Rebellion 1900.

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226 China medals issued to this ship, all without clasp.

John George Mostyn Field was born on 11 October 1849, elder son of Captain John Bosquet Field, R.N. and brother of Arthur Mostyn Field, who retired as a Vice-Admiral and was formerly Hydrographer of the Navy. He entered the Royal Navy as a Cadet in June 1863, was promoted Sub-Lieutenant in March 1869, and Lieutenant in April 1873. He qualified as a Gunnery Lieutenant in the class of 1879 and served in that rank aboard H.M.S. Sultan at the bombardment of Alexandria, 11 July 1882. He was promoted to Commander in June 1888 and was subsequently 2nd in command of H.M. Ships Opal and Indus, and commanded Scout in the Mediterranean. He commanded the cruiser Andromache at the Diamond Jubilee Review in 1897 and took command of the Marathon on the China Station in June 1898, serving throughout the Boxer rebellion in 1900. In April 1902 he was appointed in command of H.M.S. Katoomba, flagship of the Australian Station, and also in charge of the Steam Reserve and Naval Establishments at Sydney until January 1905 when he retired. He was promoted to Rear-Admiral in February 1906 and to Vice-Admiral in January 1910, whilst on the Retired list, and died on 24 November 1912, aged 64. Sold with research including copied record of service and copied photographs of various ships he served on.